Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the sensitivities of both for the sufferings of men , women , and children drawn unwillingly into the war reflect something of the way in which thinking men asked themselves whether war was , in fact , not so much a way to peace as the prolongation of bitter conflict . |
| 2 | Though initially little more than special pleading for Liverpool shipping interests , his journalism taught him radical attitudes , most notably a hatred of the Foreign Office , for according so low a priority to West Africa , and a sympathy for African culture , which was reinforced by meeting the traveller Mary Kingsley [ q.v. ] in 1899 . |
| 3 | But even in the 1860s , the notion that a " mere girl " might learn the trade very quickly and be doing as well as a man in a short time , was not only a threat to employment but a threat to the craftsman 's pride in his skill . |
| 4 | This increasing emphasis on ‘ dignity ’ was not only a reference to behaviour within the chapel but to the nature of the Church as a body . |
| 5 | For her the multi-media scheme has been not only a counter to depression but also a means of exercising aspects of her intellect and imagination . |
| 6 | Microsoft Corp 's new Windows NT is not only a challenge to OS/2 — which Microsoft originally developed jointly with IBM Corp but has since abandoned — but also Unix , which is now installed on some 24m workstations . |
| 7 | Windows NT is not only a challenge to OS/2 — which Microsoft originally developed jointly with IBM Corp but has since abandoned — the but also Unix , which is now installed on some 24 million workstations . |
| 8 | It was Gandhi 's favourite hymn : not exactly a call to revolution ( ‘ One step enough for me ’ ) . |
| 9 | Nazism is not just a threat to homosexuals , ‘ Lefties ’ and racial minorities , but the very concepts of democracy and freedom and those who believe in them . |
| 10 | ‘ We are not just a temple to gold and glass but should turn our attention to daily life ’ |
| 11 | We are not just a temple to gold and glass , but should turn our attention to daily life in all its many aspects . |
| 12 | This could open doors for my career so it 's not just a record to ome . |
| 13 | It must be total , he admonished , ‘ not just a coming to terms with the enemy ’ . |
| 14 | But the sad experiences of thousands over the past three years show that home ownership is not always a path to happiness and contentment . |
| 15 | Snow , however , is not always a disadvantage to mountain goats . |
| 16 | Half of clinics open just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a Family Planning Association survey revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | HALF the country 's birth control clinics open their doors just once a week to women seeking contraceptive advice , a major survey shows today . |
| 18 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 19 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 20 | If you have a problem with colour mixing for instance , why not direct a question to Michael Wilcox ? |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards a Liverpool to Scarborough train thundered through . |
| 22 | The scheme is supported by the Workout Charity which will turn up once a week to helpwith applications and enquiries . |
| 23 | Armstrong 's interest in and love of birds began during his childhood in Northern Ireland and found their first mature expression in his prize-winning book Birds of the Grey Wind ( 1940 ) , as much a contribution to literature as to natural history . |
| 24 | ‘ Turning our attention now to the remaining portion of the Archipelago , we shall find that all the islands from the Celebes and Lombok eastward exhibit almost as close a resemblance to Australia and New Guinea as the western islands do to Asia … ’ |
| 25 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 26 | And a letter of 30 August 1934 is particularly interesting , since it is rather plainly a reply to protests from Binyon about Pound 's contemptuous treatment of Rubens . |
| 27 | Why the hell is there never a cloth to hand when it 's wanted ? ’ |
| 28 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 29 | It is about sending a clear signal to the villages of Quang Ninh and Ha Giang and Lang Son that there is no longer a road to Los Angeles by way of Hong Kong or , for that matter , of Thailand or Malaysia . |
| 30 | On their release , the teenagers will be supervised until they proved they were no longer a threat to society , he said . |